2007 Annual Report

experience More the year of Ten years ago, a handful of committed engineers created the first Bluetooth specification. In this report, you will see just how far we have come in our first decade. As 2008 arrived, we celebrated our 10,000th new member company, and consumer awareness of the Bluetooth brand reached an astonishing 85% in the six countries we survey annually. Much of our recent success comes thanks to our members in Asia, who now account for half of the product qualifications and shipments. To serve these members more effectively, the SIG has opened a new office in Korea and is hosting more events throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Last year, we improved communications for our entire membership with a new www.bluetooth.org and the launch of the award-winning SIGnature magazine. We delivered on our core mission—to produce and maintain the leading technology specification for the short-range wireless industry—by releasing the Bluetooth Core Specification v2.1 + EDR. We established a solid roadmap with the Generic Alternate MAC/PHY, the announcement of ultra low power Bluetooth technology, and high speed solutions using 802.11 and UWB radio platforms. Consumers and manufacturers alike enjoy a discernible improvement in interoperability thanks to tools and programs such as the Profile Tuning Suite (PTS), Qualification Enforcement Program (QEP) and Qualification PRD 2.0, as well as improved versions of several widely used profiles. Realizing that our responsibility to deliver the best possible user experience extends beyond the confines of the Bluetooth specification itself, we have extended our reach and leadership throughout the industry through collaboration with CTIA, the WiMedia Alliance, and the IEEE 802.11 Working Group. In this annual report, we look at the results of a year of hard work by thousands of members and a handful of SIG staff, keeping in mind that we cannot rest on our past successes because technology and consumer expectations evolve at breathtaking speed. The hardworking members that have made the Bluetooth brand a household name in ten short years are up to the job, and I am confident that in these pages you, too, will share my pride in our accomplishments and my belief in a strong future for Bluetooth technology. Mike Foley 2 http://www.bluetooth.org

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2007 Annual Report The Year of Experience More Bluetooth Technology Around the Globe Bluetooth Technology Evolution Quality and Interoperability at All Levels Expanding the Horizon The Dynamics of a Personal Meeting Financial Overview

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